Christmas Pop-Up Shop

SAMPLE SALE 27 & 28th November

 

Just to let you know, SHELF, our neighbour Mimi and some friends are having a little pre Christmas sample sale...

An excellent way of buying really special presents at knock down prices!

Laurie the Lion

Laurie the Lion is new in SHELF.

Ethically produced in Sri Lanka by Barefoot Design, and designed in the '60's,
Laurie the Lion is hand made from hand woven & dyed cotton, stuffed with Kapok and shipped slowly by sea to Cornwall.
(this is proving to be a problem getting more stock in time for Christmas!) 

Barefoot was founded in 1962 in Sri Lanka by colourist, artist, designer and entrepreneur Barbara Sansoni.

They work mainly with women.

Nothing is mass-produced.  

No child labour is used.  

All employees are given a decent wage and benefits.  

There are no factories and no production lines. 

Each worker is responsible for the quality of the final product.  

Barefoot teach the skills and strive for quality from the weavers and sewers.

If you are a small person, you can sit on his back!

Pravoslav Rada

Today we took delivery a new batch of Pravoslav Rada's work, the first in about 3 years.
(His daughter Sarka hand delivered it on a whirlwind trip of London)
Pravoslav is now 87 and no longer works every day, we are very lucky to receive such a body of his work.

We filled shelves with the pieces, they look brilliant in such a dense group.
Customers were waiting for us to open at 12 to get the pick of the bunch.
It's been a busy day on the Shelf!
We are eternally grateful for Sarka & Pravoslav's kindness over the years.

Offcut Design @ Shelf

 

Off to SHELF today to get ready for our forthcoming show by OFFCUT, which we are hosting during the London Design Festival

(actually from 18th - 26th Sept)

If you are in the area, do pop by on Tuesday when we will open until 9pm, as part of the Shoreditch Design Triangle.

Also, on Saturday 25th from 2pm, we & some of neighboring shops, including Ella Doran will be hosting shows and events for Design Week. 

AND we will be open extra days during the show- tues 21st, weds 22nd from 12-6pm.

Come and see!

Bumper stationery Pack
Crammed full with vintage finds each of these packs contain:

5 x 1LB Coffee Bags from Old Spitalfields Market
13 x Assorted Tickets
1 x Card of French Brown Darning Wool
1 x Tin of Lane's 'Big Ben' Bootpolish (original contents included, somewhat shrunken!)
2 x Broom Labels from The USA
2 x British Fizzy Pop Labels
5 x Finest Anchor Butter Papers from Lloyds Dairy, London, WC1
2 x Paper Bags from Shelf's own stock
1 x Pencil

Together with these non-vintage items:
Large Hungarian School jotter
10 x old fashioned wire and paper ties
a calico drawstring bag from San Francisco
1 x Shelf Sew-On Patch
and a tiny wooden, lucky black cat from Germany

You can buy one here 
or come to the shop....

Rob Ryan Tiles

Rob Ryans tiles are in stock again, a good selection in store, £30 each.

Offcut Design @ Shelf

A sneak peek from OFFCUT DESIGN H.Q.
Shelf are showing their new desk accesories and other new goodies during Design Week.
18th - 26th September.
More to follow soon!

tales of a wedding

The lovely Artemis has blogged a lot about her and Nao's beautiful wedding on the Isle of Wight.
On our return to the mainland we sent a tiny gift, which Artemis then proceeded to blog about..
Its good to know how much she appreciated them and my type written butter paper!
We have some in our stationery gift packs in the shop, stuffed with vintage goodies.
You can also buy the enamelled letters in store or a few selected words online.
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present from a friend

Been meaning to show these off for a while.
A present from Mike
There's another layer underneath.
I'll never use them!
kh